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GAO News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)

Government Accountability Office GAO News Reader grabs the top stories from the GAO and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers long version: reports and testimonies, long version: legal decisions and opinions, short version: reports and testimonies, and short version: legal decisions and opinions. It features...

Tags: Mobile, Government Accountability Office, General Accounting Office, Splaysoft, Government Accountability Office News Reader, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-25

New GAO Team Counts on SAS for Information Sharing

Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, many government agencies have been refocusing their resources to improve homeland security. While this work primarily involves intelligence, defense and law enforcement agencies, a new team within the Government Accountability Office GAO has formed to address the overall context of national preparedness. The challenge...

Tags: Team, SAS Institute, Government Accountability Office, General Accounting Office, Homeland Security, Government

Case studies 2009-01-01

Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau

  The US Census Bureau faces cost overruns up to $2 billion on an IT initiative replacing paper-based data collection methods with specialized handheld devices for the upcoming 2010 census. The Bureau has not implemented longstanding Government Accountability Office GAO recommendations and may therefore be forced to...

Tags: Harris Corp., Government Accountability Office, Census Bureau, Bureau, Handhelds, Hardware, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-03-20

GAO: Dry runs make radiation-detection tests unreliable

The Government Accountability Office says that the Department of Homeland Security has been encouraging vendors of new radiation detection equipment to cheat on upcoming tests, The Washington Post reports. Those tests are supposed to determine whether Congress moves forward with $1.2 billion in funding for the machines....

Tags: Microsoft ASP, Government Accountability Office, U.S. Department Of Homeland Security, General Accounting Office, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Prepare for more scrutiny after SEC's SOX failure, says Gartner

Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...

Tags: SEC, Government Accountability Office

Blog posts 2005-06-30

Did SOX failure push SEC Chairman over the edge?

Earlier this week, CNet News.com reported that the Government Accountability Office GAO audit of the SEC found that the organization, ironically, did not have effective internal control over financial reporting, pointing to weaknesses in its information security and accountancy practices. The GAO also found that the SEC's financial statements for...

Tags: Regulations, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, SEC, Government Accountability Office

Blog posts 2005-06-01

Additional Resources

Global cyberwar: Installed in your PC at home, the office and government

Personal Accountabilityas long as people can think and act as though their conduct on the internet is shrouded in anonomity.Until each of us takes full responsibility for what we do and operates with the knowledge that our 'unique' verifiable identities can be obtained readily, the carnage will continue and broaden.A...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Vertical industries, government, computer, PC-At Home, Internet, car

Discussion threads 2009-10-21

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacy

Consumer Watchdog blasts Google over privacyWow. No real surprise there[i]it certainly doesn?t seem that scary to me[/i]Of course not, you've proclaimed that you "Love everything Google does" and think the world of them (but would you fall on your sword, too?)[i]subscribe to the idea that Google collects information to make...

Tags: Government, E-mail, Google Inc., privacy, Consumer Watchdog

Discussion threads 2009-07-11

Yes We Can -- improve records management

Hi folks, Doc here. Remember when I talked about how U.S. government employees throw out millions of pages every day? Well, on a more hopeful note, I came across a CMSWire article from earlier this year about the impact the new Obama administration may have on records management in the...

Tags: Administration, Marisa Peacock, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Document Management, Workforce Management, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Doc

Sponsored content 2009-07-01

Building a vision for Government 2.0

Government 2.0 isn't waiting for a federal mandate. Earlier this week, the nation's first ever CIO, Vivek Kundra, urged the use of Web 2.0 approaches to address the needs of government and citizens at the Management of Change conference in Norfolk, Virginia. Kundra outlined several important areas where he...

Tags: Web, Citizen, Web 2.0, Vision, Vivek Kundra, Government, Vertical Industries, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-06-03

National Archives lost 2TB drive from Clinton years

"The nation's record keeper" - the National Archives and Record Administration - has lost a two-terabyte hard drive containing digital records from Bill Clinton's presidency. In a statement, NARA said that it "takes very seriously the loss of an external hard drive that contained copies of...

Tags: Security, Agency, NARA, Records Management, Managerial Accounting, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-05-21

Gov't IT projects: Billions at risk

New Congressional testimony by the General Accountability Office GAO reports that "352 [US federal government] projects totaling about $23.4 billionâ€"were poorly planned." by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Testimony, Information Technology, Federal Government, Strategy, Government, Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Google sidesteps Korean identity law

Google sidesteps Korean identity lawSocial Harmony = Social slavery and lack of dissentIn most of the countries that 'value that'. The fact is that social harmony comes second to my right to do what I want to do as long as I am not: physically harming someone else without their...

Tags: Government, Social Harmony, Korean identity law, identity law, pedosexuality, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-04-13

The U.S. electrical grid: How big of a cyber target is it?

Updated: Spies have reportedly been probing the U.S. electrical grid for months and planting software that could be activated at a future date, according to a Wall Street Journal. The report highlights the latest vulnerabilities facing U.S. power infrastructure. The Journal notes that the spies are from China,...

Tags: Security, SCADA, Grid, Master Station, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-08

New CIO's vision: Democratizing Data

DC's data feed of crime data on Google Maps links a police report to the location. W. David Stephenson knows our new federal CIO pretty well: he's been cowriting a book with him: Democratizing Data, to be published by O'Reilly. So I turned to Stephenson...

Tags: Performance, Data, Vision, DC, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-03-08

Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?

Extreme capitalism. Consumption supreme. Is it over?Obamasiah will not allow drilling or new Nuclear powerObamasiah has banned off-shore drilling and building of any new power plants.So I hope everyone enjoys the 25% ENERGY TAX coming this summer, get ready to have electricity crisis along with high fuel cost...

Tags: Financial accounting, Extreme Capitalism, accountability, Obamasiah

Discussion threads 2009-03-08

White House 2.0: Working through tech challenges

It's only been a little over a month since the tech-savvy Obama administration moved in the White House, so it's no surprise that WH staffers might still be experiencing some growing pains on the tech front. Here you have this group of people that were using Twitter,...

Tags: President, Washington, White House, Administration, YouTube Inc., Video, Bureaucracy, Obama, Corporate Communications, Government, Workforce Management, Marketing, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-02

How much should government commit to open source?

How much should government commit to open source?If open source is as good as you believe......then companies offering open source solutions will win those contracts for medical records etc. So you can say its already been done...if they can actually win that is.Huh?How would that help the economy?How would...

Tags: Obama, open source, government

Discussion threads 2009-01-27

Mobiles for your users

We all have users for whom a mobile phone of some sort makes a lot of sense. Our district has always either provided a phone or a moderate subsidy for key staff who need to stay in touch. Principals need to be reachable in case of emergencies with...

Tags: District, Phone, Mobile, Telecom & Utilities, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle room

Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomIt's what the President should have been requiring alreadyThis really isn't what Congress should be doing, but there should be such rules.RE: Senate introduces IT failures bill: No wiggle roomA little accountability goes a long way. I just hope the legislation is...

Tags: Government, Strategy, DEF, information technology, IT Failure, U.S. Senate

Discussion threads 2008-11-13